Obama and that troubled health care website. We knew about the glitches and the apology from the president , but today we learned a stark number, how few americans actually signed up on that federal site, fewer than you can fit in yankee stadium. This as we finally meet the woman whose face was on the home page. She is saying dont blame her. Abcs chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl starts us off. Reporter during the first month just 26,000 people were able to select Health Insurance through the federal website or over the phone, a stunningly low number. 14 states and d. C. Operate their own Health Insurance market places and did better, nearly 80,000. All tolled obama care is way behind the administrations goal of 500,000 for the first month and the 7 million they hope to enroll by march. Those numbers and who they sign up are critical to making obama care work. Even before the numbers came out today, the white house put the blame on the troubled website. I can only tell you
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peppers on the planet. these so-called chili heads get a rush from endorphins released from the body in response to pain. chili heads are people who adopted chili peppers as their hobby. reporter: that is paul bosland, director of the chili pepper institute. he said there is a rising demand for super hot, the hottest in the world, measured in scoville units. the higher the number, the hotter the pepper. a jalepeno, about 10,000 scoville units. a trinidad scorpion up to 2 million. eating a scorpion chili is like being pepper sprayed in your mouth. reporter: peppers so hot you need a gas mask to cook with them. whoa! okay. so why do people do this? we went to see blair lazar, the record holder for making the hottest hot sauce in the world. i think everyone needs to try to feel alive a little bit more.
reporter: how could i say no to one of blair s meanest chilies? if you would like to try that. reporter: you are kidding, right? no, you are okay consider as soon as it hit my tongue it felt like my tongue had been seared with a hot poker. so of course i went for more. not the most pleasant experience but i have to say i m feeling a little more alive. i m okay. linzie janis, abc news, highlands, new jersey. what s the point? just sounds dangerous. right? i love hot, spicy food but at some point you go there s a line for me dangerous. are you a mild person? i will jump out the window or the plane. you would rather jump out of a plane? i d jump out of plane before i eat a whole chili pepper. this is from blair. this is their ultra and it says on the thing, try it with
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